Abstract:This chapter presents the analysis of a corpus of 38 professional science journalism articles. The analysis is quantitative, that is, it shows how often each strategy is used in the corpus, and instrumental, which means that an interpretation of the texts is offered through the application of the analytical framework for popularization discourse. In this chapter, we include the percentage of use and an example of the use of each strategy. The median of strategy use is 20 (out of a possible 34), with a high sco… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.